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Dr. Farhana Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar of water governance, post-colonial development, sustainability, social and environmental justice, climate change, and gendered dimensions of environmental change and development policies. Farhana Sultana received her A.B. (Honors) in Geosciences and Environmental Studies from Princeton University, graduating Cum Laude. She obtained her M.A. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, where she enhanced her interdisciplinary training and was a MacArthur Fellow. Between 1998-2001, Farhana was a Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) responsible for managing a large environmental management program in Bangladesh. Through this experience, she worked with a wide variety of international organizations, government agencies, and NGOs, and obtained a keener understanding of environment-development issues in theory and practice. Farhana returned to complete her Ph.D. program in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota, where she was a
John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and an International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Fellow. Moving across the pond to the U.K., Farhana was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester during 2005-2006. From 2006-2008, Farhana was a faculty member in the Geography Department at King's College London. She relocated to the US in 2008 where she is a faculty member in the Department of Geography at Syracuse University. Farhana was awarded promotion and tenure in 2012.

At Syracuse, Farhana is the Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC) in the Maxwell School. In addition, she is also a Faculty Affiliate/Associate of the following departments/programs: Women's and Gender Studies Department, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA), South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, International Relations Program, Tolley Humanities Faculty, Asian/Asian-American Studies, and Democratizing Knowledge Collective.

Given Farhana's interdisciplinary training and interests, and her work experience across three continents, she lectures globally on a variety of topics, and engages with scholars, practitioners and activists in several projects. Further details on her research projects, publications, invited talks, conference participations, teaching, advising, service and outreach activities are provided below on this page. More information is also available on her personal website www.farhanasultana.com.

Authored Books:

Edited Books:

2017, Eating, Drinking: Surviving. Springer: Netherlands. (with Peter Jackson and Walter Spiess). [Book contains 11 chapters written by 13 academics, and a Foreword by Benno Werlen. The book is part of the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) series. Further information is available at the publisher’s website: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-42468-2

2012, The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles , Earthscan Water Text Series, Routledge: London and NY. (with Alex Loftus).
[Book contains 15 chapters written by 21 academics & practitioners, and a Foreword by Maude Barlow] Further information available at:http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781849713597/

2017, "Reflexivity" In The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology , Douglas Richardson (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell and the American Association of Geographers. Pp. 1-5.

2015, "Rethinking Community and Participation in Water Governance" In The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development , Anne Coles, Leslie Gray and Janet Momsen (Eds.), Routledge, London. Pp. 261-272.

2011, "Spaces of Power, Places of Hardship: Rethinking Spaces and Places through a Gendered Geography of Water" In Gendered Geographies: Interrogating Space and Place in South Asia , Saraswati Raju (Ed.) Oxford University Press: Delhi, Pp. 293-306.

2009, "Community and Participation in Water Resources Management: Gendering and Naturing Development Debates from Bangladesh" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Vol. 34, Issue 3, Pp. 346-363.

2005, Gender Concerns in Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: Trends and Challenges . Commissioned Report for the Department for International Development (DFID), UK, and the Arsenic Policy Support Unit, Department of Public Health Engineering, Government of Bangladesh.

Research Interests

A brief overview and video of Farhana Sultana's research,
and how to support her research, can be found here:
http://benefunder.org/causes/579/farhana-sultana

Farhana Sultana is a broadly trained interdisciplinary scholar
with research interests that generally fall under scholarships in
nature-society relationships, political ecology, development geography,
feminist theories, water governance, climate change, natural hazards, and
social justice. Farhana's research projects are critical, interdisciplinary and
intersectional, where she investigates complex multi-scalar, multi-process
issues, combining her insights and background in the natural and social
sciences. In exploring the socio-ecological dynamics of international
discourses and policies, Farhana is particularly focused on how these are
articulated, negotiated, and lived in everyday lives on the ground. Farhana has
written extensively on these issues for a variety of interdisciplinary
audiences inside and outside of academia. She is keenly interested in research
that pushes the boundaries of existing scholarship, in order enrich
conceptualizations and theorizations in Geography and beyond.

In general terms, Farhana has long been interested in issues
of political ecology of development and social justice as conceptualized and
enacted by variously-situated actors, and the ways by which such
conceptualizations interact with local understandings of issues such as
'environmental management', 'resource governance', 'development', 'social
justice'. In this respect, she is interested in environmental governance and the
politics of knowledge production, whereby discursive and material realities
co-produce and challenge policies, projects, practices, and realities on the
ground. She explores the complex ways that processes of development and
globalization come to impact poverty, well-being, and socio-ecological change
across sites and scales. Water often forms the lens through which Farhana
studies such socio-ecological transformations.

Farhana's past research focused on the intersectionality of
gender, class, and policy implications of water management in Bangladesh, with
an emphasis on drinking water problems from arsenic contamination of
groundwater. She investigated the ways that discourses of participation,
community, and gender equity operate in water management, and in development
more broadly, and the implications such discourses have on the ground. She
analyzed the ways that water management policies and practices espouse such
narratives, and the ways that complications arise from agencies of both humans
and nature in such discourses and practices. A main thrust of the research was
to understand the processes by which marginalization, inequalities, and power
relations operate in the context of socio-ecological change and development
endeavors.

Farhana's current research interests have expanded to wider
issues on the intersections of gender, environment, and development in the
global South, and ways by which development, governance, and commodification of
natural resources affect different social strata across sites and scales. She
is currently researching the ways that urban water governance affects the poor,
and the challenges inherent in materializing the universal call to a right to
water. This research focuses on how different modalities of water governance
result in social inequalities, how the right to water is understood and
practiced, and what such processes mean for goals of development, citizenship,
social justice, and well-being. Through such research, Farhana is querying what
water justice means in theory and practice. Linked to this research program was
the successful international conference on 'The Right to Water' that Farhana
organized in 2010, and as well as her recent widely-acclaimed edited book The
Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (2012, Routledge,
London and NY); this book has been translated into Spanish and Polish due to
demand by publishers.

Farhana's second research interest engages with climate
change, socio-ecological impacts, and social justice. This research focuses on
the coastal areas of South Asia and the US, and explores the ways that climate
change adaptation politics play out in the context of uneven development,
gender inequalities, and social practices in places with long histories of
floods and tropical cyclones/hurricanes. Water thus continues to be an
important factor in this research, as cross-scalar climate justice is
imbricated in water-society relationships. Farhana was a Visiting Fellow at the
International Center for Climate Change and Development at the Independent
University of Bangladesh in Spring 2017 to carry out field research. Her
research on climate adaptation won the 2015 faculty Moynihan Challenge grant
from the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, for the project "Building
Community Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change across Sites, Groups and Scales".
Farhana is also the lead PI in the successful Maxwell 10th Decade Project
entitled 'Citizenship and Climate Change', which investigates the complex ways
notions and practices of citizenship are imbricated in climate change impacts.

Farhana's other interests also include transboundary river
sharing around the world, particularly the disputes over the Ganges River in
South Asia. She is interested in the ways that socio-ecological transformation
from changing river dynamics and hydrology affect not only lives and
livelihoods but also international political relations, geopolitics, and
discourses of development within and between nation-states.

Methodologically, Farhana engages with both quantitative and
qualitative methods, with particular interest in issues of feminist fieldwork,
positionality, power relations, and research ethics.

Beyond academic research, Farhana participates in numerous
pro-bono activities and endeavors with various organizations and networks,
building community and solidarity both locally and across the globe.

Member, Clean Water Initiative Task Force, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University (2010)

Faculty Affiliate of several departments/programs at Syracuse University (2008-present): Women's and Gender Studies Department; Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA); Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC); South Asia Center; Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs; Tolley Humanities Faculty; Asian/Asian-American Studies; Democratizing Knowledge Collective.

Masters Admissions Tutor, Department of Geography, King's College London (2007-2008)

International Research Theme Leader on Gender, Action Research on Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB), Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS) & International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2011-2012)

Member of Editorial Board of Journals:

ACME: An
International Journal for Critical Geographies (2017-present)

Peer-Reviewer of International Journals:

ACME; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Antipode; Applied Geography; Area; City, Culture and Society; Cultural Anthropology; Development and Change; Emotion, Space and Society; Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning C; Environment and Society; Environmental Conservation; Environmental Hazards; Feminist Economics; Geoforum; Geografiska Annaler B; Geography Compass; Geographical Review; GeoJournal; Gender, Place and Culture; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; International Journal of Public Administration; International Journal of River Basin Management; Journal of Geography and Regional Planning; Journal of International Development; Landscape and Urban Planning; Oxford Development Studies; Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Sage Open; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Society and Natural Resources; Sociological Research Online; The Geographical Journal; The Professional Geographer; Third World Quarterly; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Urban Geography; Water Alternatives; Water Research; Weather, Climate and Society; Women's Studies International Forum

External Reviewer for Promotion:

Peer-Reviewer for organizations and research institutions:

National Science Foundation NSF (USA); National Geographic Society NGS (USA); Economic and Social Research Council ESRC (UK); Natural Environment Research Council NERC (UK); Leverhulme Trust (UK); CRDF Global (USA); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Jacques May Thesis Prize, sponsored by the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG).

Member: Association of American Geographers (AAG); Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS/IBG); Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN), International Gender and Water Alliance (GWA); Gender and Disasters Network (GDN); Municipal Services Project (MSP); Future of Minority Studies (FMS); WaTeRS (Water related Training and Research in the South); Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee.

Advisory roles:

International Geographical Union's UN Year of Global Understanding; Climate Adaptation Working Group of Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction; Gender and Water Alliance Bangladesh; Bangladesh Environment Network.

Recent Activities

Invited
Keynote Lectures and Talks:

2017, Rutgers University, USA: “Politics and Power in
Water Governance: Citizenship Struggles of the Urban Poor in the Global South” New
Geographical Thought Speaker, New Brunswick, NJ 28 April 2017.

2017, Pontifical
Academy of Sciences, Vatican City: Keynote
Speaker, “The human right to water, gender justice, and sustainable
development: Exploring connections and possibilities” International Workshop ‘Human right to water: An interdisciplinary
focus and contributions on the central role of public policies in water and
sanitation management’ Casina Pio IV, Vatican City, Italy, 23-24 February
2017.

2016, State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego, USA:
Invited Speaker, “Laboring for Water, Laboring for Life”, Feinberg Family Fund Speaker Series, Oswego, NY, 26 October 2016.

2016, Pennsylvania State University, USA: "Gender
and Water", Gender, Agriculture and
Environment Initiative (GAEI) Inaugural Symposium, College of Agricultural
Sciences Office of Research and Graduate Education, State College, PA, 6-7 June
2016.

2016, University of Helsinki, Finland: Keynote Speaker, “Environmental
Vulnerabilities in the Globalizing World: How to Adapt and Manage Change?” Helsinki
University Centre for Environment, 9-11 May 2016.

2015, University
of Wisconsin at Madison, USA: “Climate Change and Human Rights: Mitigation,
Adaptation and Vulnerable Communities” New
Politics of Human Rights, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI,
5-7 November 2015.

2015, Cornell
University, USA: “Water and Citizenship: Politics of Development and Democracy
in Water Governance in the Global South” Seminar
Series, Development Sociology Department, Ithaca, NY, 10 April 2015.

2015, University
of Minnesota, USA: “Water Access, Equity and Resilience in the Global South” International Center for the study of Global
Change (ICGC) Roundtable, Minneapolis, MN, 3 April 2015.

2015, Syracuse
University, USA: World Water Week
Speaker, “The Right to Water and Water Justice”, Syracuse, NY, 26 March
2015.

2014, Harvard University, USA: “Urban water crises,
informal settlements, and water for the urban poor” From SAARC to Slums: Urban Water Challenges in South Asia, South
Asia Institute Annual Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 24-25 April 2014.

2014, Tufts
University, USA: World Water DaySpeaker, “Gender, Water and
Citizenship: Politics of Development and Democracy in Water Governance in the
Global South”, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 11 March 2014.

2013, Vanderbilt University, USA: “Climate change as
hydro-social change: Rethinking Water Crises in the Global South” Research Colloquium, Department of Earth
and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the
Environment, & Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies,
Nashville, TN, 6 September 2013.

2013, SUNY School
of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, USA: “Social and Policy implications of
Drinking Water Contamination in Asia”, Cross-Disciplinary
Seminar in Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes, SUNY-ESF, 5 February
2013.

2012, Harvard
University, USA: “Human Right to Water versus Water Rights: Ownership and
Rights as Contested and Negotiated Terms”, The
Human Rights to Water & Sanitation: From Theory to Practice, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study, 7-8 December 2012.

2012, University of Oklahoma, USA: “Gender, Water and
the Politics of Development: Rethinking Social Justice and Citizenship in the
Global South”, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, 17
September 2012.

2010, University
of Minnesota, USA – Plenary Speaker “Water Struggles in a Changing World” International
Research Workshop on Struggling for water: Dams, Pipes and Urban-Rural
Transformations in the Global South, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study
of Global Change (ICGC), 14-15 November 2010.

2010, University
of Delaware, USA: “Poisoned Waters: The Making and Unmaking of a Public Health
Success Story in Bangladesh” Research
Seminar Series, Departments of Geography, Geology, Women’s Studies, &
Delaware Environment Institute, 23 September 2010.

2010, University
of Buffalo, USA: Keynote Speaker,
“Gendered Waters: Negotiating and Experiencing the Contradictions of Nature and
Society in the Development Process” Gender
Across Borders IV: Gender and Globalisms Conference, 2-3 April 2010.

2008, Koç
University, Istanbul, Turkey: “Transboundary River Disputes and Implications
for Sustainable Development: The Case of the Ganges River in South Asia” InternationalSeminar Series, Department of International Relations, 5 May 2008.

2008, Action
Against Hunger, UK: “Water and HIV: Working for Positive Solutions” World Water Day Seminar, Action Against
Hunger & King’s College London, 19 March 2008.

2002, University
of Minnesota, USA: Working in the Field: “Perspectives from Managing the
Largest Environment Program of UNDP in Bangladesh” MacArthur Brown Bag Research
Seminar Series, 21 February 2002.

1998,University
of Minnesota, USA: "Shrimp and Sustainability: Social and Ecological
Impacts of the Shrimp Aquaculture Industry in Bangladesh” Coffee Hour Research Seminar
Series, Department of
Geography, 21 April 1998.

2010, “So
You Want to Save the World and Make a Difference? Reflections and Advice from
My Work Experience at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)” The Transnational NGO Initiative,
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, 21 October 2010.

2009, “Adapting
to Climate Change: Who Pays the Price?” Focus
the Nation Teach-in on Climate Change Solutions, 21 April 2009.

2008, “Shared
Waters, Divided Peoples: Water, Conflict and Socio-ecological Transformations
in South Asia” Conversations in Conflict
Studies Series, Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts,
Maxwell School, 5 November 2008.

2013, Lead Co-organizer of Discussion Panel on "The Right to Water: Theories and Practices" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 9-13 April 2013.

2011, Co-organizer and Chair of Two Discussion Panels on "Climate Change and Development: Intersections, Contradictions, Opportunities" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA, 12-16 April 2011.

2011, Co-organizer of two-day Conference "Water in South Asia: Challenges in a Changing Environment", Cornell University, 7-8 April 2011.

2011, Host and Moderator of Discussion Session with Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians) on "The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water", Syracuse University, 5 April 2011.

2010, Chair and Lead Organizer of two-day international conference "The Right to Water", Syracuse University, 29-30 March 2010.

2010, Co-organizing and Chair of two Paper Sessions on "Gender and Climate Change" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2009, Organizer and Chair of two Paper Sessions on "Water, Power and Politics in South Asia" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 22-27 March 2009.

2009, Organizer and Presenter at Film Screening and Discussion Session for "Climate change and Bangladesh: Who will pay?" Department of Geography, Syracuse University, USA, 27 January 2009.

2008, Co-organizer and Co-chair of three Paper Sessions and one Discussion Panel on "Water and Development: A Fluid Relationship" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, 15 - 19 April 2008.

2007, Co-organizer and Co-chair of two Paper sessions and one Discussion Panel on "Global Perspectives on Gender-Water Geographies" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2007, Co-organizer and Co-chair of five Paper Sessions and one Discussion Panel on "Socio-ecological Nature of Water" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2006, Organizer of Discussion Panel on "Gender and Water" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 7 - 11 March 2006.

2006, Co-convener and Co-chair of two Paper Sessions on "Participatory Ethics for Human Geography" Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2006.

2005, Chair and Organizer of Paper Session on "Gendered geographies of water: Trends and challenges" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, 4 - 9 April 2005.

2002, Chair and Organizer of Panel on "Water and Security" Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security Workshop at the University of Minnesota, 5 - 6 April 2002.

Select Conference Presentations and Participation:

2017, Invited Panelist: “Strategy Session: Teaching
Against the Global Turn to the Right” Feminist
Geography 2017: Insides and Outsides of Feminism, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, May 18-20, 2017.

2017, Panelist: “The International Year of Global
Understanding” Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017.

2017, Invited Discussant: “New/Critical Approaches to Water and Food Security” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017.

2017, Invited Panelist: “Quiet Social Movements & Everyday Life in the urban global South: Towards New Geographies of Social Change” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017

2016, “Water, Citizenship, and Development Struggles in the Global South” Paper presented at Development in Question, 5th Annual Conference of the Development Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 6-8 October 2016.

2016, Invited Panelist: "Critical Environmental Governance: Politics and Power in the Material World" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2016, Invited Panelist: "Fieldwork and Qualitative Research in Geography" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2016, Chair and Discussant: "How to make the AAG more diverse" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2015, Invited Panelist: "A Political Ecology of Women, Water, and Global Environmental Change: a panel-audience discussion of current contributions to feminist environmental research" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 21-25 April 2015

2015, Invited Panelist: "International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 21-25 April 2015

2014, Panelist: Panel session on 'Engaging Feminist Pedagogy: Gendered Spaces In/Outside the Classroom' Feminist Geography: Who we are, what we do, why we do it. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 15-18 May, 2014.

2014, Panelist: Panel session on 'Importing or creating theories: Doing feminist geography in 'other' places' Feminist Geography: Who we are, what we do, why we do it. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 15-18 May, 2014.

2014, Invited Commentator and Panelist: The Public Shareholder: The ethics, regulation, and risk of public utility commercialization, Université de Montréal, Canada, 2-4 May, 2014.

2014, Invited Panelist: Panel session of the 'Dialogues in Human Geography Annual Forum', Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014.

2014, Panelist: Panel session on 'Feminist Pedagogies' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014.

2014, "Public Water and Citizenship: Imbrications of Belonging and Democracy in The Right to Water" Paper session on 'New Water Resources Geographies?' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014

2011, "Poisoning the well of development: Water governance and development politics" Rethinking Development, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA, 10-12 November 2011.

2011, "Poisoning the well of development: Water governance and development politics" Rethinking Development, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA, 10-12 November 2011.

2011, "Water, Vulnerability, and the Politics of Adaptation: Gendered Realities of Climate Change in South Asia" Water, Waves, and Weather: Climate Change and the Future of South Asia, Conference of the American Overseas Research Centers hosted by American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17-21 July 2011.

2010, Invited Discussant: Paper session on 'Dams, Science, and the Law' at international conference Experiments on Rivers: The Consequences of Dams, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, 11-12 November 2010.

2010, Invited Panelist: Panel Session on 'Gender and Environment: Critical Tradition and New Challenges' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2010, "Gender, climate change and the politics of adaptation" Paper presented at the session 'Gender and climate change' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2010, Invited Panelist, Session on 'Gender and Environment: Critical Tradition and New Challenges' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010

2009, "Gendering climate change: Debates from South Asia" Paper presented at the MaGrann Conference on Climate Change in South Asia: Governance, Equity and Social Justice, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, 16-17 April 2009.

2009, "Of Purity and pollution: Negotiating socio-spatial-ecological-embodied subjectivities in contaminated waterscapes" Paper presented at the session 'Water, power and politics in South Asia' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 22-27 March 2009

2009, Invited panelist, Session on 'Democratizing Water Technologies' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 22-27 March 2009

2008, "Poisoning the Well of Development? Arsenic, Accountability and (Un)anticipated Development in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Re-Engaging Development in a Post- Development Era? Developing Areas Specialty Group Conference, Clark University, 13 - 14 April 2008.

2008, Panelist, 'Water and Development: A Fluid Relationship?' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, 15 - 19 April 2008.

2008, "Fluid Lives: Gender, Subjectivity and Water Management" Paper presented at the session 'Advancing Environmentality: the Materiality of the Environmental Subject' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, 15 - 19 April 2008.

2007, Invited Plenary Speaker, "Sustainability: A Post-Mortem?" Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2007.

2007, "'Sorry, I can't give you money': Positionality, Reflexivity, and Ethics of Fieldwork in Third World Contexts." Paper presented at the session 'Giving Back: Ideas for mutually beneficial research' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2007.

2007, "Suffering for water, Suffering from water: Gendered and Classed Dimensions of Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the session 'Arsenic in the Natural Environment: The Geography of a Global Problem' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2007.

2007, Invited Chair, Session on "Wellbeing, Relatedness, and Collective Action" Wellbeing in International Development Conference, University of Bath, 28 - 30 June 2007.

2007, Invited Panelist, "People of Color Negotiate the Academy (Part II): Women of Color Geographers and the Crisis of Under-representation" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2007, "Watery Discourses: Participation and Community in Water Resources Management" Paper presented at the session 'Global Perspectives on Gender-Water Geographies' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2007, Panelist, "The Matter of Water: Water, Materialities, and Development" at the session 'Socio-ecological Nature of Water I' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2006, Panelist, "Feminist Political Ecology of Water - Wither Geography?" at the session 'Gender and Water' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 7 - 11 March 2006.

2006, "Gendering Natural Hazards Research: A Feminist Analysis of the Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh" Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 7 - 11 March 2006. [Winner of the 2006 Kasperson Student Paper Award of the Hazards Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers]

2005, "Women, Water, Welfare: Debating Development and Water resources management in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2005.

2005, Invited Panelist, "Discourses of Participation and the Development Industry" at the session 'Participatory Geographies' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2005.

2005, "Drops of life, Drops of death: Gendered Geographies of a Drinking Water crisis in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the session 'Gendered geographies of water: trends and challenges' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, 4 - 9 April 2005.

2005, "Sociology of an Escalating Disaster: Gender, Water and Arsenic in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 31 March - 3 April 2005.

2004, "Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Understanding the Social Geographies of the Drinking Water Crisis from Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the MacArthur Consortium Workshop Gender in an International Context, University of Minnesota, 16 - 17 April 2004.

2004, "Water, Water Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink: Analyzing the Drinking Water Crisis in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, 15 - 19 March 2004. [Winner of the 2004 Best Student Paper Award of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers]

2003, "Managing Water for Sustainable Development: The Importance of Gender, Class and Environment in National Water Policies in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the MacArthur Consortium Workshop Gender in an International Context, University of Minnesota, 11- 12 April 2003.

2002, "Political Ecology of the Ganges River: High Modernism, River Politics, and the Farakka Barrage" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 17- 19 October 2002.

2002, "Water Resources, Water Security and the 'Rio Plus Ten' Process: An Overview" Paper presented at 'Water and Security' Panel of the Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security Workshop at the University of Minnesota, 5 - 6 April 2002.

2002, "The Farakka Barrage and the Ganges River Dispute: High Modernism, River Politics and Socio-ecological Implications" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 18 - 23 March 2002.

2000, with Ben Crow, "Water Allocation and Gender - An Analysis from Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Berkeley Water Working Group Speaker Series, University of California - Berkeley, 4 May 2000.